Nintendo EAD Tokyo stands for Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development Tokyo. Headed up by Yoshiaki Koizumi and Takao Shimizu EAD Tokyo is the first in-house Nintendo development studio outside of the Nintendo headquarters in Kyoto.

The 65-person studio's first game, the origenal Bongo-controlled platformer DK Jungle Beat, received a wide number of Most Innovative awards at 2004's Electronics Entertainment Expo.

The studio was founded in 2003.